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American Drivers' Love for Big Vehicles Is Back

What auto brands, models, and categories were the most popular in 2013? WSJ's Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer.

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I ... research and rubbed America's love affair with pickup trucks and sport utilities but the flame ... burning ... and our Covestor vehicle choices ... bigger ... is back for the best selling vehicles in the U S last year ... the top two new vehicles drop a lot in two thousand thirteen ... both American made trucks for killing the competition ... selling seven hundred species of owls and F series trucks ... and General Motors selling almost half a million Silverado was ... drowning out the top five ... less expensive passenger vehicles ... to Camry Honda Accord ... Honda said ... within five years of the Great Recession put the brakes on auto sales ... larger and more powerful vehicles are revving back with the greatest force ... as evidenced by the growth in sales last year over the year before just look at the top five fastest growing categories sales of luxury sports cars accelerated by around twenty knots for the category represents a small slice of the overall car market ... second place in terms of sales growth ... led to a family favorite ... the compact crossover SUV ... of around twenty one percent last year ... in third place ... a full size pickup ... Boeing's sales by six percent in one place to another SUV the largely crossover ... and we look for cars came into people are going back to what they'd like before the recession ... and that is ... trucks ... large pickup trucks are ... booming that's what the company's them what pomp and circumstances at the auto show in Detroit and help you guessed it ... Ford worn out and you at one fifty constructed of aluminum ... GM did during two thousand fifteen Chevy Canyon midsize Truck ... illuminate up when fifty years according to forty seven hundred pounds white are ... hoping to get better mileage ... but for customers of these trucks ... the costs of gas is clearly not their top priority ... especially since gas prices are down from the ... peak in two thousand ate ... when the national average for a letter to push ... for dollars eleven cents a gallon ... the Eletson around three dollars and thirty two cents ... about for cars like all the leaves are selling so well ... with gas prices remained relatively stable ... the auto industry is catering to the symbols of